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Michael Lewis MacLennan
Born in Vancouver, Michael
Lewis MacLennan now divides his time between Toronto, Vancouver and
Los Angeles, working as a playwright, screenwriter and TV producer.
He is a two-time finalist for Canada’s Governor General’s Literary
Award, and the only playwright to win the Herman Voaden National Playwriting
Award twice. His first play Beat the Sunset garnered Vancouver’s
Jessie Richardson Award for outstanding emerging playwright and the
Theatrum National Playwriting Competition. Grace won the
Theatre BC National Playwriting Competition and has been produced across
Canada and internationally. His next two plays The Shooting
Stage and Last Romantics both won the Voaden Prize and were
Governor General Award nominees. His most recently published play
Life After God was an adaptation of the Douglas Coupland book.
As a screenwriter, MacLennan
has been nominated five times for the Writers Guild of Canada Screenwriting
Award. Credits include co-executive producer of Queer as Folk,
creator and executive producer of Godiva's and co-creator of
jPod. He has written pilots for ABC and CBS, CBC and Germany’s
RTL network.
Read Ten Questions with Michael Lewis MacLennan at Open Book Toronto.
For more information, visit
www.michaelmaclennan.com.
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